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Nine Signs Children May Need An Eye Exam
Back-to-school shopping lists might include school supplies, new clothes and even a haircut, but does it include an eye exam? Physicians with the University of Alabama at Birm...Full Article
Diagnosis In 2.127 Seconds: Solving A Years-Long vomiting Mystery Using AI, Research And Brain Power
2.127 seconds. That’s how long it took mediKanren to find 347 possible treatments for nausea. 2.127 seconds that helped bring relief to a young woman who has been throwing up ...Full Article
E-Cigarette Use Spurs Rise In Teens Treated For Respiratory Injuries
The number of teens and young adults treated for severe respiratory injury after e-cigarette use is increasing at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, which is...Full Article
Texas Cities Increasingly Susceptible To Large Measles Outbreaks
The growing number of children arriving at Texas schools unvaccinated makes the state increasingly vulnerable to measles outbreaks in cities large and small, according to a co...Full Article
ICU Nurse Co-Founds First Charitable Organization For Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis, The Rare Disease That Affects Her Own Daughter
Louisville, Kentucky, ICU nurse Emily Ventura is mother to Cedar, a seven-year-old with a rare and life-threatening disease called progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasi...Full Article
Do You Know How Heavy Your Child's Backpack Is?
Have you ever tried to lift your child’s backpack? If not, you are probably in for a pretty startling surprise. Do you remember your backpack always being insanely heavy as a ...
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Parent-Targeted Interventions In Primary Care Setting Improve Parent-Teen Communication On Alcohol Use, Sexual Behavior
New research shows that brief parent-targeted interventions in the primary care setting can increase communication between parents and their teens about sexual and alcohol-rel...Full Article
Survey Data Suggests Widespread Bullying By Superiors in Medical Residency Training
Using questionnaire answers from thousands of internal medicine residents, primarily from U.S. training programs, a research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine says it has added t...Full Article
Should Doctors Accept Unvaccinated Children As Patients?
Four in 10 parents say they are very or somewhat likely to move their child to a different provider if their doctor sees families who refuse all childhood vaccines, according ...Full Article
Children With Mild Asthma Can Use Inhalers As Needed
A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis supports evidence that children with mild asthma can effectively manage the condition by using their two...Full Article
CSHA Releases Video, Resource Guide To Help Parents, Others Determine Children's Language Development Status, Need For Help
The California Speech-Language-Hearing Association (CSHA) has released an educational video and supporting online resource guide to help parents, medical professionals, educat...Full Article
Prize-Winning, Student-Designed App Identifies Social Conditions Contributing To Mortality App Review
An app created by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students that identifies social conditions contributing to declining life expectancy at a community level is a Phase 1 winne...Full Article
WINDGO Granted IoT Wearable Products Patent
WINDGO, Inc., a research and development company specializing in smart material and vibrational transfer technologies, announced today that they have been granted US Patent No...
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Moderate To Heavy Drinking During Pregnancy Alters Genes In Newborns, Mothers
Mothers who drink moderate to high levels of alcohol during pregnancy may be changing their babies’ DNA, according to a Rutgers-led study. “Our findings may make it easier to...Full Article
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Successfully Creates Airway and Voice Box for Child
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital reconstructed an airway and voice box in the world's first successful surgery of its kind for 2-year-old Cooper Kilburn from Adamsville, Tenn. ...Full Article
How Adults Can Spot Signs Of Mental Illness In Children
A recent report by the New Jersey Poison Control Center at Rutgers University showed a rise in suicide attempts by pre-teens over the past 18 months — a trend that has been s...Full Article
UVA Leads Major Effort To Understand Autism Differences In Boys, Girls
A pioneering autism researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is spearheading an ambitious effort to understand how autism-spectrum disorders differ in boys ...Full Article
Mode Of Delivery At Birth May Play Key Role In Shaping The Child's Skin Microbiome
The maturation of skin microbial communities during childhood is important for the skin health of children and development of the immune system into adulthood, but only a few ...Full Article
Enterovirus Antibodies Detected In Acute Flaccid Myelitis Patients
A new study analyzing samples from patients with and without acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) provides additional evidence for an association between the rare but often serious co...Full Article
Look, Then Lock! Children Continue To Die Unattended In Cars
The statistics and dangers are real. Yet according to the National Safety Council (NSC), on average, there are still more than three dozen children dying in parked cars every ...Full Article
Back-To-School Tips For Kids With Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Back to school is just around the corner and this time of year can be both exciting and stressful, especially for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Children may g...Full Article
Of Mice And Babies: New Animal Model Links Blood Transfusions To Dangerous Digestive Disease In Preemies
Physicians have long suspected that red blood cell transfusions given to premature infants with anemia may put them in danger of developing necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC, ...Full Article
Multiple Genes Affect Risk Of Asthma, Hay Fever And Eczema
In a new study from SciLifeLab at Uppsala University, researchers have found a total of 141 regions (genes) in our genetic material that largely explain the genetic risk under...Full Article
TTI Heat Map Shows Relationship Between Traffic-Related Air Pollution And Childhood Asthma
A team of air quality and health researchers led by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) have created a first-of-its-kind, county-by-county interactive heat map and ci...Full Article
Pupil Dilation And Heart Rate, Analyzed By AI, May Help Spot Auism Early
Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders often aren't diagnosed until a child is a few years of age, when behavioral interventions and speech/occupational therapy become ...Full Article
